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How to fight against thief?
You can’t.
If thieves are specced to escape, they will escape and there’s nothing you can do to stop it. They can shake conditions off, turn invisible, run faster than you, and more. Once you see them book it, hit them as much as you can while they run, then move to a new target.
No, it’s not fair. But that’s life in GW2.
Yeah, unfortunately as Guru said there isn’t much you can do. I would love it if pets would stick on them even if they stealthed (ala other games), but I don’t think that would be fair for them.
The best thing i found to do is keep spaming your auto attack. Think about if you went stealth wich way would you try to escape. They arnt going to run at you there is usally only 2 ways out of areas so just chase, and keep shooting you will still hit them. Once you get good at it, its awesome seeing one come out of stealth in the downed position. The only thing i hate is when your trying to finish them off and they stealth or what ever they do. Then seems like sometimes they port really hard class to finish off if they know what they are doing. But anyways thats a diff subject just keep shootin throw traps if ya want too.
Depends on how much you want to commit in chasing. Generally an immobilize is needed against stealth, and if they whip out infiltrator’s arrow, you are going to need warhorn+GS to fight that and their 25% speed signet.
Utilizing CC pets is also a good way so you don’t even give them a chance to escape (drake hound with immob, wolf with fear). And finally, if you really want him dead, entangle.
It’s not easy to kill a good thf. You almost have to give them a window of opportunity so they overcommit. Otherwise, you need a couple of CC, and you have to time it well, to be able to catch them and kill them. Thankfully, most thfs are glass cannon build, so as long you land a immob, and just start mashing auto attack, their stealth won’t save them. They would just reappear in downed state.
Well over stealth thiefs sacrifice damage to be able to do that. and if they dump their initive to stealth they will ahve no burst damage for about 15 seconds